Posts in conflict

South Sudan: This emergency is huge, I have never seen anything like it

Helen Ottens-Patterson, from the UK, is a nurse and Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) medical coordinator in Maban county in Upper Nile State, South Sudan.

Sleeping sickness: treating a neglected disease in Central African Republic

As 11-year old Natacha tosses and turns in a hospital bed in a village in Central African Republic (CAR), her parents sit close by, their faces drawn with worry.

Syria: Patient testimonies of violence and abuse

These testimonies from injured people across Syria were collected by Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff between 30th January and 6th February 2012.

South Sudan: "They abducted my child and slit the throats of the two boys"

In the state of Jonglei, in South Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of inter-communal fighting. These testimonies were collected from patients at MSF's hospital in Pibor.

"I haven't seen our home region for over nine months"

As more than 2,000 Somalis cross the borders of their country into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself unprecedented numbers of people are on the move in a de

"It’s only lunchtime and we’ve already admitted 151 children today.”

Dr Hussein Sheikh Qassim works in the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Marere, southern Somalia. He spoke to us by phone at 1pm on 15 July 2011.

"Over the past weeks, I've seen hundreds of malnourished children"

My name is Osman* and I work for MSF as the nutritional supervisor in Marere, a village of 6,000 people in south central Somalia.

A Somali child suffering from malnutrition receives treatment at MSF clinic

Neglected Victims of the War in Libya - Abdul

Abdul, 23, left Ivory Coast in 2008. Before the war broke out, he spent months in Libyan prison. He is now in the Shousha refugee camp.

Neglected Victims of the War in Libya - Mouhaydin

Mouhaydin, 27, from Somalia, was working as a labourer and a cleaner in Libya. He arrived in Shousha in March. His wife died after embarking on a boat to Europe.